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sonj1

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Francophile Brit, still bitterly regretting and resenting 2016. #FBPE 🇨🇵🇪🇺🇺🇦 Watching the US with horror. No DMs, thanks.

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sonj1 @sg99.bsky.social · Mar 13

Why is no-one calling the #WhiteHouse the #ShiteHouse?

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 3h

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10h

I will remind people, every single Billionaire in the UK gets an average of £320,000,000 of benefits a year, mostly in tax they allowed to avoid.

It ain't that Disabled Person on Motability ripping you.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 4h

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5h

Zack Polanski has said he would look to rejoin the EU as soon as possible.

Green Party the only English party that is promising to rejoin the EU.

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Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 12h

There was a headline on BBC News this morning that said “Prince Andrew gives up royal titles”, and it’s rare to encounter a sentence which has quite so comprehensively forgotten how it started.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

“.. It was not immediately clear where the funding for the jets came from.”

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 9h

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‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council

Exclusive: Footage reveals Kent leader berating councillors amid rows over budgets and bullying claims

www.theguardian.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 5h

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 16h

Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls and dinners with Matthew Menchel — the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epstein’s sweetheart deal in 2007, newly released documents show.

Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show

Matthew Menchel, who spearheaded Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 criminal prosecution, left the DOJ in 2007 to take a job as a trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim. Epstein’s calendars show Menchel met with Epstein in ...

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 3h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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sonj1 @sg99.bsky.social · 3h

So many brilliant photos from the #NoKings marches in the US. Well done guys!! 👏👏👏

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European Movement West London #FBPE #FBPR #RejoinEU @em-westlondon.bsky.social · 17h

Mike Galsworthy:
“Next year it’s going to be the 10th anniversary of that vote, and it will be pretty clear at that point that Brexit was a disaster..it was bad for us”

Zack Pokansky discusses #Brexit with Mike Galsworthy on Bold Politics

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